Improvement in clothes-washers



PATENT OFFICE.

EENEY w. PELL, one-ROME, NEw YORK.

IMPROVEMENT VIN CLOTHES-WASHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,399, dated September 26, 1871.

V.To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. BELL, of Rome,

p' in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have inventedcertain Improvements in Clothes- Washers, of which the following is aspeciication: i i

The device `is intended to be placed in clothes boilers, and the parts are so arranged that a constant stream from the lower stratum of hot water will be conducted up the pipes and discharged fin a shower upon the clothes, passing through which the water again descends to the lower to repeat the circuit. The drawing represents in perspective a longitudinal section.

In the drawing, Anis the clothes-boiler or kettle in which the device is placed. The size and shape of the base portion B B will depend upon the form and proportions otthe vessel A, for use in which it is to be adapted. The base portion consists of two lobes, B Bgformin g canopies over portions of the bottom of the boiler. From the roof oi' each canopy rises a vertical tube, C, crowned by one or more deiiecting-disks, E F, which discharge the suds upon the clothes. D D are wires which support the clothes out of contact with the top of the lobes B B, so that the suds may have free downward course after percolating through the clothes. The walls b b of the respective lobes-are eXible, and are sepf arated by a space down which the suds passes to the delecting-plate G, which directs thedes'cending suds intwo streams beneath the lower edges of the platesb b into the lobular chambers The operation is as follows: Theproper amount of suds and clothes being in the boiler and the contents brought to a boi1,th'e boiling suds iiow up the tubes G O, and are distributed over the clothes by the dellectors E or E F, as the case may be, as I propose to use either one or two, at discretion. The suds descend from these deiiectors in a shower over the upper stratum of clothes, and thence percolate through the whole mass until they reach the top of the chambers B B. The wires D D supportthe clothes and permitthe suds to iiow freely toward and descend through the gap between the walls b b. At the bottom of the gap is the curved plate G, which directsthe suds beneath the plates b b. These plates are lexible,fbeing inv near contact with the curb B',

but not attached thereto. This iiexibility causes the plate to open when the suds descend against it from the gap, but also causes it to batter against the edge of the plate Gr when the suds attempt to escape in that direction.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the lobular chambers B B and putter-pipes C C, crowned with one or more deiecting-plates or disks, substantially as described.

2. The iieXible plate b, duplicated or otherwise, operating as described.

HENRY W. BELL.

Witnesses M. C. PURDEY,

H. M. GLINES. (117) 

